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When antibiotics first came out, nobody could have imagined we'd have the resistance problem we face today. We didn't give bacteria credit for being…

— Bonnie Bassler

When antibiotics became industrially produced following World War II, our quality of life and our longevity improved enormously. No one thought bacteria were going…

— Bonnie Bassler

Antibiotic resistance is as old as the dirt that coats our planet.

— Scott Gottlieb

“Sixty years on, we know that HGT is one of the most profound aspects of bacterial life. It allows bacteria to evolve at blistering…

— Ed Yong

“Information is not a static commodity. Organisms pick up information. They adapt it, modify it, and use it.”

— José Luis Bermúdez

Widespread use of antibiotics promotes the spread of antibiotic resistance. Smart use of antibiotics is the key to controlling its spread.

— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

“exposure to antibiotics early in life causes microbial perturbations at a crucial time, just when organs and systems are developing.”

— Martin J. Blaser

“Synthetic biology was the transistor of the twenty-first century. Yet political realities in America made it increasingly unfeasible for entrepreneurs there to tinker with…

— Daniel Suarez

“The scientific community has lost its original sense of responsibility.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“bacteria are infinitely more versatile than we are. They are metabolic wizards that can digest everything from uranium to crude oil. They are expert…

— Ed Yong

“We have already seen how pliable the microbiome can be. It can change with a touch, with a meal, with a parasitic incursion or…

— Ed Yong

There is a glaring reason that the necessary total ban on nontherapeutic use of antibiotics hasn't happened: The factory farm industry, allied with the…

— Jonathan Safran Foer